Playstation Plus is giving gamers a bit more value for their dollar with online savegame storage

PlayStation online game save storage will be released March 10

A couple of huge announcements have been released in the gaming world today as Sony broadens its features for the PlayStation Plus and Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 receives the Guinness World Record for Fastest Selling Consumer Electronics Device.

Sony will launch online storage for PS3 game saves tomorrow, which will be part of the annual $50 subscription. This new feature provides users with 150MB of space in the cloud available for 1,000 save files, and copy-prohibited files can be backed up as long as users only restore deleted files from their system once a day.

In addition, games to be released in the future will be able to save directly to the PlayStation Network. This will be released tomorrow in PS3 firmware v3.60, allowing users to completely bypass their local HDD.

While PlayStation gamers celebrate the new features unveiling tomorrow, Microsoft has some celebrating of its own to do.

Microsoft announced today that the Kinect for Xbox 360 has been named the Fastest Selling Consumer Electronics Device by Guinness World Records. To date, 10 million Kinect sensors have been sold worldwide, with another 10 million standalone Kinect games sold globally to date.

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I guess MS had a better manufacturer than Nintendo too. They couldn't make enough Wiis to keep up with demand. I'm sure the Kinect sold way more than the Nintendo system, just saying. The price difference isn't much either.

The Wii isn't the number 1 bestseller anymore in various markets. I looked for something to back me up on this and apparently, in the UK last year, the 360 outsold the Wii quite handily, although it's business as usual for Nintendo in North America. Japan, however, still can't find it in itself to embrace any sort of hardware that non-Japanese companies throw out.

"Game reviewers fought each other to write the most glowing coverage possible for the powerhouse Sony, MS systems. Reviewers flipped coins to see who would review the Nintendo Wii. The losers got stuck with the job." -- Andy Marken